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This diploma thesis concentrates on typical pronunciation errors faced by intermediate Czech learners of English, specifically on word stress and reduction of unstressed syllables (weak forms). In order to analyse these aspects, a project was designed based on recording a sample of 33 first-year English language students at the Pedagogicka fakulta in Ceske Budejovice, and a survey was conducted on the learners? attitudes and experiences in pronunciation learning. Two types of speech were recorded (reading an unseen text and spontaneous oral expression) and subsequently analysed. As the Czech language has a different system of word stress and the reduced forms do not exist, it was presumed that interference will be detected from the mother tongue in the field of word stress and there will be prevalence of the strong forms of grammatical words. |
